About the Authors

Jihye Jang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine (Cardiovascular Division), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Long H. Ngo

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine (Cardiovascular Division), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

Gabriella Captur

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Barts Heart Center, The Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging Unit, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, West Smithfield, London, United Kingdom, NIHR University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Center, London, United Kingdom, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom

James C. Moon

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Barts Heart Center, The Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging Unit, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, West Smithfield, London, United Kingdom, NIHR University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Center, London, United Kingdom, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Reza Nezafat

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

rnezafat@bidmc.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine (Cardiovascular Division), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The author RN is an inventor of patents for MRI involving multislice T1 and T2 mapping (System and method for tissue characterization using multislice magnetic resonance imaging, US20150323630A1; Method and apparatus for multi-slice imaging of T2-relaxation time; US10191132B2). The rest of the authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.